Mr Kanshi Ram, BSP chief, held a meeting with Mr Kamal Chaudhry, former MP,
who recently resigned from the BJP, for more than two hours at his residence
here last evening. He came to Hoshiarpur from Delhi to meet Mr Chaudhry
only. On receiving information about the meeting, mediamen reached the
residence of Mr Kamal Chaudhry to know the outcome of the discussion. They
had to wait for two hours to meet both leaders.

Coming out from the meeting, Mr Kanshi Ram said he simply met Mr Chaudhry to
seek his advice and cooperation on certain issues. Mr Chaudhry explained to
him the reasons of his resignation from the BJP. They discussed the present
political situation in Punjab. The BSP chief said he had suggested to Mr
Chaudhry not to join any political party hastily. He should think before
joining any political party in future.

He added that he was satisfied with the BSP performance in UP and had
authorised Ms Mayawati to look into the political affairs of the State. He
was now concentrating on Punjab politics to unite the Bahujan Samaj for
elections of State Assembly during February 2002.

He claimed that the BSP was the only political party in the country to
become national party in seven/eight years whereas the Congress and the BJP
had to wait for several years to become national parties.

To a question Mr Kanshi Ram said the BSP would not make alliance with any of
the political party and contest elections in Punjab independently. He made
it clear that the BSP would not join the third front.

He said his politics was based on casteism. He was trying to unite
Ramdasias, Mazhabis Ad-dharmis and Balmikis, who had considerable vote bank
to grab power. He emphasised on installing a non-Jat Chief Minister in
Punjab. He remarked that none of the person of non-Jat community ever
thought of becoming the Chief Minister of Punjab. He had made up his mind to
break this tradition.

Mr Chaudhry said people of Punjab would soon see a revolutionary change in
the state politics. He alleged that the people had been fed up with the
corrupt rule, mis-management and anti-farmer attitude of the SAD-BJP
government